Analysis of competences and regulations multiplicity at a site of Argentinean World Patrimony

Abstract

The UNESCO Convention for protection of World, Cultural and Natural Patrimony produces modifications, both on regulation and management of cultural patrimony. In Argentine, this matter surges as a result of increasing patrimony protection standards, and multiplication of government agencies with competence on such issue. Regulation and administrative overlapping derived from the intersection of international, domestic and sub-national regulations, adversely impacts competence distribution within the State. The purpose of this work is to unveil such alteration parting from analysis of a witness case: The sanction process of urban regulations of Colonia Caroya city, in the Province of Cordoba, Argentine. The arrangement of this municipality includes the homonym Estancia Jesuitica, declared in 2000 as a World Patrimony, as a part of the Group Manzana and Estancias Jesuiticas of Cordoba. An analysis of content of a documental corpus reviews a group of actions and managers in the various national and sub-national levels, involved in regulation, by modifying competence allocation established by the Constitution. Such matter explains the complex processes produced in management of World Patrimony sites, and shows absence of standards which coordinate the various administrative levels competences on such sites.